In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 318
Jinling Palace.

After receiving Lin Rui's instructions and imperial edict, Na Muzhong finally breathed a sigh of relief. He stayed in Nanjing for more than a month. During this period, Na Muzhong didn't know what to do. In addition to patrolling the military camp every day, he was also patrolling the military camp for fear of someone. There is a rebellion, there is a conspiracy.

After all, the various places had just surrendered, and the surrender was in name only. Just looking at the huge southern territory and the densely packed prefectures and counties on the map, Namuzhong felt really unsure about the memorials flying in from various provinces like snowflakes. , I didn’t know what to do with them, so I had to pack them all up and send them to the capital.

Fortunately, the concept of the supremacy of Chinese imperial power is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so even though the queen Namuzhong behaves like a political novice who doesn't understand anything.

But no one in the southern provinces dared to act rashly. They all waited honestly, including many civil and military officials in Nanjing.

Obviously everyone knew that although the Queen of Dahua was a rookie, the Emperor was a ruthless person who was not easy to fool. If anyone dared to fool the Queen, his fate would be that his family would be confiscated and his family exterminated by the Emperor.

Although Li Yan and others also gave Na Muzhong a lot of reassuring ideas, especially Qian Qianyi and other Donglin Party officials who were jumping up and down, Na Muzhong was afraid of being cheated and did not dare to adopt them rashly.

"Everyone, His Majesty has sent instructions. Except for the Fourth Army, all temporary armies will be canceled and reorganized into a garrison. All the officials from the six previous departments will go to the capital and wait for arrangements. From now on, Nanjing will be renamed Jinling..."

After Na Muzhong read out the arrangements for everyone, whether it was Qian Qianyi, Zhou Yanru and other civil servants, or Li Guo, Liu Zongmin and other rebels, they finally relaxed.

Naturally, civil servants would not object to going to the capital. How could they realize their ambitions if they did not go to the capital to serve?How to participate in the future governance of China?

As for the generals who have been demoted, they don't care about the field army or the garrison. As long as they can continue to be Dahua's general military officers and lead troops to guard one side, it is enough.

It shows that the Shenwu Emperor will not kill the donkey, otherwise he will not let them continue to lead the army.

Li Yan was appointed as the left staff officer of the staff department, and Niu Jinxing was appointed as the right staff officer, temporarily assisting Na Muzhong in reorganizing the troops. Although both of them did not understand what official positions they were, they were quite satisfied.

Song Xiance was a little dissatisfied because his official position was as a staff officer in the General Staff Department. Although he didn't understand what the specific official position was, he knew that this staff officer was definitely lower than the left and right staff officers, but he didn't dare to show it.

The Duke of Wei and other nobles began to get nervous, because the imperial edict did not mention how to deal with them, and the fate of the nobles in Beijing made them have to worry, but there was nothing they could do.

In fact, they were unwilling to surrender at first, but the situation was over. Even their commanders, thousands and hundreds of households, surrendered. Even if they wanted to resist, they were powerless.

At this time, everyone else also noticed that Wei Guogong and the others had not been accommodated, and they all looked over. Those who were close to them subconsciously distanced themselves from them.

Namuzhong did not let them wait any longer, and took out an imperial edict again, directly declaring the fate of Wei Guogong and other nobles, which was also to confiscate their homes and exterminate their clans.

Now that the entire city of Nanjing has been firmly controlled by the Chinese army, the house raids did not cause much turmoil at all. A group of nobles who had been in Nanjing for more than 200 years were uprooted in one day.

No matter the gentry, literati, or ordinary people, they all applauded, and almost no one sympathized with the nobles.

Because civil servants, military generals, scholars, businessmen, and ordinary people almost all have their own roles and values, but these nobles have no value at all. They still occupy huge industries and wealth. If they are not eradicated, what are they left for?
It can be said that the nobles in Nanjing are richer and more luxurious than the nobles in Beijing. The brothel painting studios on the banks of the Qinhuai River are almost all owned by nobles, and they occupy countless manors and fields. The entire silk industry in Jiangnan The salt industry also has these noble cadres.Therefore, the entire house confiscation operation lasted for more than a month before it ended. Fortunately, thousands of ladies and a large number of eunuchs came with the imperial edict, so that the proceeds of the house confiscation could be counted.

"Ten million taels of silver, is this too exaggerated?" Na Muzhong opened her mouth in shock. It was really hard to imagine that those nobles were so rich.

"Your Majesty, this is only real gold and silver, and does not include other property." This time, Mrs. Lu personally led a team to search the house. Her voice was slightly trembling at this moment, and she was obviously shocked by the wealth of Jiangnan Xungui. I also understand why His Majesty asked her to come in person.

"How much is the other property worth?" Namuzhong asked quickly.

"Back to your Majesty, other properties cannot be evaluated clearly at the moment, but the total value is only much more than real money and silver." Mrs. Lu shook her head.

"Hiss, what should we do with such a large amount of property? Does your Majesty have an explanation?" Namuzhong naturally knew Mrs. Lu's position in Lin Rui's heart, and asked after the shock.

"Well, His Majesty has told us that all gold and silver will be shipped to the capital. The land will be rented to the people and all other properties will be sold."

Mrs. Lu replied that she came here mainly to deal with these industries, and secondly to conduct a talent show in the Jiangnan area, and to bring back at least [-] ladies.

This is a solution proposed by the Superintendent of Education to solve the shortage of teachers.

Of course, not all ladies should be teachers. A few beauties like Zhang Yan should also be selected to enrich His Majesty's harem.

Now that Wan'er has a royal son, she also plans to carefully select a few beauties for His Majesty who will conquer the country.

"His Majesty actually told me that I will not interfere anymore. You can just take care of it yourself!" Na Muzhong waved her hand and did not intend to interfere with the confiscation of the house anymore. After all, she was busy with the whole task of reorganizing the army. Yes.

Then, as the towns were reorganized and started heading to their respective locations, the city finally came to a standstill outside Nanjing.

With the arrival of new governors, prefects, prefectures, and county magistrates, as well as the arrival of garrison troops from various places, the entire south began to get back on track.

After the edict exempting all miscellaneous taxes and corvee was passed to the provinces, the people in the southern provinces also supported the new dynasty and the new emperor from the bottom of their hearts. Only then did Lin Rui give orders to the garrison forces in various places to cooperate with the government in suppressing bandits.

All bandits and bandits were punished only for the first culprit, and all the followers were taken to the northwest of Henan to farm.

By the end of the third year of Shenwu, the turmoil in the entire Ming Dynasty, except for Yunnan, had ended, roads were open, and business travel was revived. With the birth of newborns in the homes of ordinary people in the north, the end of the troubled times was completely announced, and the land of China was also Ushering in the transition from chaos to peace in the cycle of history.

(End of this chapter)